Rick Byers wrote:
/*
* How about Canada?
*
* It is my understanding that the Free Trade agreement makes some
* interesting US/Canada relationships. I know this because Canada is the
* ONLY country in the world where you can choose between the International
* or American version of PGP.
*
* I believe (because of Free Trade), all encryption/security related stuff
* can be exported from the US to Canada, and Canada has no laws preventing
* the export to the rest of the world. Obviously someone will need to check
* deeper, but if this is the case - it could solve a lot of problems. The
* speeds from certain Canadian locations to the US are normally great
* because Canadian locations often use the same carriers (MCI/Sprint etc..).
*/
We can get the US export-controlled munitions like crypto here
in Canada only because our government has agreed to be bound by
the US munitions export controls.
We therefore can NOT re-export these things to the rest of the
world.
But then I'm no expert, that's just what I've been told.
Confirmation, denial, or otherwise would be welcome.
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Colin Bradley
fox@cs.mcgill.ca
http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~fox